The Great Depression. In 1934 and 1936 drought and dust storms ravaged the great American plains and added to the New Deal's relief burden.

The Great Depression

In 1934 and 1936 drought and dust

storms ravaged the great American

plains and added to the New Deal's relief burden.

"Kodak view of a dust storm Baca Co., Colorado, Easter Sunday 1935"; Photo by N.R. Stone (Circa April 1935)

Dust Storms; "One of South Dakota's Black Blizzards, 1934"

Farm foreclosure sale. (Circa 1933)

Migrants. (Circa 1935)

Farmers whose topsoil blew away joined the sod caravans of "Okies" on Route 66 to California. Families on the road with all their possessions packed into their trucks, migrating and looking for work. (Circa 1935)

Farm Security Administration

Migrant family looking for work in the pea fields of California. (Circa 1935)

Migrant worker on California highway. (Circa 1935)

School in Alabama. (Circa 1935)

Bread Lines and Soup Kitchens